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Post by sk8 on Jan 23, 2021 18:56:51 GMT -4
I've always had a fairly general American accent. My 'oh's sometimes had a weird, almost Minnesota type sound, and occasionally on 'ay' sounds it has a bit of an 'ee' vibe, but that has been it really for most of my life. Nobody from home noticed an accent, and friends from other parts of the country (or even world, I had a Swedish exchange student friend in 11th grade) couldn't tell where I'm from based on my accent
Fast forward to December, I moved back from college. Now, My hometown is in the western area of West Virginia (near where Kentucky of Ohio meet, that general rust belt meets Appalachia area), and my college is on the opposite side of the state (West Virginia University, I don't mind giving the specific school away), but I definitely didn't develop a local accent to either area. During my first semester I made friends from a little more north (Upstate New York, Northern Pennsylvania, etc.), and I also became obsessed with the movies Good Will Hunting and Catch Me if You Can. I guess the accents rubbed off on me, because I went home for semester break and everyone was telling me how I sound like I'm from New York or New Jersey or something (they'd throw in a few different places, but those were the main responses I got). My R's became much softer (occasionally I drop them), and I guess the general vibe just kinda changed.
I think it's kinda cool. I know my aunt went to college in Georgia, and you can hear that pop out a lot when she talks, blended with my hometown's regional accent. Anybody else have cool accent stories?
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Post by Bannanachair on Jan 23, 2021 21:03:25 GMT -4
When I was a kid, I had an accent that everyone thought was foreign. Australians thought I sounded American, Americans thought I sounded British and Brits thought I sounded Australian or American. I have since acquired a much more definitively American accent (which is a shame, because it's the one I find the least aesthetically pleasing of the three).
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Post by Duck14 on Jan 24, 2021 10:49:24 GMT -4
Being a Brit living in Australia for so long has made my accent meld into a mixture of the two.
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Post by sk8 on Jan 28, 2021 21:20:40 GMT -4
When I was a kid, I had an accent that everyone thought was foreign. Australians thought I sounded American, Americans thought I sounded British and Brits thought I sounded Australian or American. I have since acquired a much more definitively American accent (which is a shame, because it's the one I find the least aesthetically pleasing of the three). That is a shame, the general American accent has become a lot more popular in the past 30 years or so. The only American accent I really dislike are the more Southern/Appalachian types (probably part of why it never stuck on me), but I would hate for regional accents to just go away, and the same to foreign accents. Some blend of those three seems like a cool accent. Maybe you can fake it back if you care enough to, I don't know? |
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Post by stacky on Jan 28, 2021 21:46:50 GMT -4
When I was a kid, I had an accent that everyone thought was foreign. Australians thought I sounded American, Americans thought I sounded British and Brits thought I sounded Australian or American. I have since acquired a much more definitively American accent (which is a shame, because it's the one I find the least aesthetically pleasing of the three). That is a shame, the general American accent has become a lot more popular in the past 30 years or so. The only American accent I really dislike are the more Southern/Appalachian types (probably part of why it never stuck on me), but I would hate for regional accents to just go away, and the same to foreign accents. Some blend of those three seems like a cool accent. Maybe you can fake it back if you care enough to, I don't know? I feel awful when I say this, but I highly dislike Southern accents. I live in the South, and I refuse to develop the accent. If anything, I get a stronger upstate NY accent every year somehow. It's not a "strong, strong" accent, but I always unconsciously manage to pick up on things my NY family says or how they say it. I also never picked up Southern mannerisms. Not that I'm trying to be a jerk, it's just that I'm rather absent-minded, and I will easily forget to say mannerisms like "ma'am/sir" or will accidentally curse in public. |
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Post by sk8 on Jan 28, 2021 21:59:04 GMT -4
That is a shame, the general American accent has become a lot more popular in the past 30 years or so. The only American accent I really dislike are the more Southern/Appalachian types (probably part of why it never stuck on me), but I would hate for regional accents to just go away, and the same to foreign accents. Some blend of those three seems like a cool accent. Maybe you can fake it back if you care enough to, I don't know? I feel awful when I say this, but I highly dislike Southern accents. I live in the South, and I refuse to develop the accent. If anything, I get a stronger upstate NY accent every year somehow. It's not a "strong, strong" accent, but I always unconsciously manage to pick up on things my NY family says or how they say it. I also never picked up Southern mannerisms. Not that I'm trying to be a jerk, it's just that I'm rather absent-minded, and I will easily forget to say mannerisms like "ma'am/sir" or will accidentally curse in public. There's one that I do kind of like, but I've only heard it once in real life. It's the kind of fancier non-rhotic southern accents that are kind of outdated. My Civics teacher was from New Orleans and traveled a lot in her childhood, and she would slip into that accent from time to time. |
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Post by stacky on Jan 28, 2021 22:05:05 GMT -4
I feel awful when I say this, but I highly dislike Southern accents. I live in the South, and I refuse to develop the accent. If anything, I get a stronger upstate NY accent every year somehow. It's not a "strong, strong" accent, but I always unconsciously manage to pick up on things my NY family says or how they say it. I also never picked up Southern mannerisms. Not that I'm trying to be a jerk, it's just that I'm rather absent-minded, and I will easily forget to say mannerisms like "ma'am/sir" or will accidentally curse in public. There's one that I do kind of like, but I've only heard it once in real life. It's the kind of fancier non-rhotic southern accents that are kind of outdated. My Civics teacher was from New Orleans and traveled a lot in her childhood, and she would slip into that accent from time to time. Would it be a Cajun accent then? I'm not really sure though, I love linguistics, but I don't know much about each accent in America. |
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Post by sk8 on Jan 28, 2021 22:23:10 GMT -4
There's one that I do kind of like, but I've only heard it once in real life. It's the kind of fancier non-rhotic southern accents that are kind of outdated. My Civics teacher was from New Orleans and traveled a lot in her childhood, and she would slip into that accent from time to time. Would it be a Cajun accent then? I'm not really sure though, I love linguistics, but I don't know much about each accent in America. Not entirely sure, it definitely could be. She only slipped on certain words or times (she would say Gov'nuh instead of Governor for example, but it was nothing like how the British stereotypical "Ello Govna"), so I never heard quite enough to tell. I became interested in linguistics as a way to not sound like I'm from mid-Appalachia, but now that I don't I just continue to be interested, which is why I asked if anyone here had cool accents. |
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Post by jackthesharktooth on Jan 29, 2021 2:34:03 GMT -4
no one giv a shit
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